Thank you all for your Prayers and thoughts during this journey. We will be posting the progress on this page to keep everyone informed. We have appreciated everyone reaching out to us and showing us your Love and Support. We are on this journey together!

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Status: Apr 28, 2025, 4:24pm

Received two forms of Chemo this morning, and will be getting this treatment every 3 weeks. The Immunotherapy has not yet been approved by the Insurance (awaiting cell-level analysis). Once approved, will begin that treatment.

The Radiologist has scheduled the radiation 'mapping' for this Thursday, May 1st. Once complete, daily radiation treatments will begin (hopefully next week). We were hoping to start that this week, but there is a 'process' needed before treatment can begin. The Oncology staff is excellent! We are so glad that they work thru all of the Insurance and Scheduling for us. The Radiation will be done with a new-technology system and there are only 2 in the country, here and Oklahoma!

Thanks again for all of your prayers!

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Previous Updates

Apr 28, 2025, 6:24am

Today is Chemo day. I woke up feeling "tingly & energized" and could feel all your prayers and the Holy Spirit giving me comfort. We are Armed with Hope for the day ahead. Thank you Family and Friends!

Apr 21, 2025

The ‘port’ was implanted successfully this morning at Halifax in Daytona. Our meeting this afternoon with the Oncology Nurse was VERY informative (especially for Matt since he is kind of clueless on such things). We are on target to start two forms of Chemo on Monday April 28th, as well as an Immunotherapy treatment. All three together will provide the best results. These treatments are currently planned to be repeated every 3 weeks. And then periodically I'll be rescanned to see if the treatments are working as expected.

Also on next Monday we have an appointment with the Radiologist to go over the "Pulmonary" test results from last week. At that time we will know the plan for the Radiation treatments as to when those daily treatments can be started.

Apr 19, 2025

I am scheduled to have a ‘port’ implanted on Monday, and then we meet with an Oncology Nurse later that day. The current plan is to start Chemo treatments on Monday April 28th, followed by daily Radiation treatments (Monday thru Friday). Hopefully Immunotherapy treatments will get in the mix. Since the cancer is in several lymph node locations around the lung, the Doctors have indicated that some cancer cells may have spread to other areas, thus the aggressive approach will have the best outcome for success!